Paige Rogers reports:
“Turning massive amounts of personal data about public school students to a private corporation without any public input is profoundly disturbing and irresponsible.”
~Donna Lieberman, New York Civil Liberties Union Executive Director
Data-mining is the new gold rush, with student data (which is sometimes referred to as human capital) forming the new mountain for conquest. Classrooms are the new West and grant money is the new pickaxe. Big Money, Big Tech, Big Philanthropies and start-up companies, along with the Big State comprise the ranks of the 21stCentury’s “forty-niners.” Regardless of who is doing the mining and the collecting of our human capital – the Big State and its Big Beaurocracy, educational venture capitalists/companies like Knewton and DreamBox, Big Tech companies like Amazon and Google, or “venture philanthropists” like Zuckerberg and Gates with their infamous “schoolhouse commercialization” – this get-rich-quick scheme will inevitably have big consequences for student privacy and for the civilian-to-government, government-to-civilian relationship going forward.
Read more on NOQ Report.
And I thought Google, Facebook and Amazon were bad!
Want to make this go away? Hold school districts liable for evaluating and then accommodating every student whose brain wave activity might indicate ADHD or an attention deficit.
“You had evidence that the student had an attention deficit from their brain wave data, and you are obligated under IDEA for “Child Find.” So what did you do about it?”